Stories

If you're thinking about becoming a foster parent, you likely have lots of questions. You may wonder if you need special qualifications or if you're even eligible to foster a child:

Katie, a foster mom with two adopted children of her own, remembers her emotionally-charged first meeting with a young teen who arrived with all her belongings crammed into two garbage bags: "You know she's terrified . . . and we're a bit terrified . . . and she's this lovely, lovely young lady who for all intents and purposes...

Danny was used to feeling the hit of profound loneliness at regular intervals throughout the year, and most keenly at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Not to mention his birthday. As a 14-year-old Crown ward in care since he was a toddler, Danny has spent too many of those special occasions alone or with staff members he knows are paid to...

As a child, Amy Gowing immersed herself in Choose Your Own Adventure detective stories. Today, her work as a family finder with the Finding Permanency project at Family & Children's Services (F&CS) is reminiscent of that make-your-own story series. Family finding is about mining case files looking for people, including non-relatives, who are or were connected to a child. It's...

This is the story of Flypress Films, a video production company specializing in corporate storytelling (with thanks to Enticity for bringing Flypress to Red Door):

Every once in a while you put good people and good ideas together and magic happens. That's the kind of dynamic that drives Flypress. Richard James, founder and lead storyteller, describes the Flypress team as "small but intensely in sync. Our close-knit work environment suits us perfectly, and we collaborate with a select group of creative partners when we need...